Apr
09
2021
The Unit for the Victims broadens age range for compensation payment through the priority route
Now, victims over 68 years will be able to access the payment. This decision will benefit more than 120 thousand people who are waiting the reparation measure benefit.
Bogotá, D.C.›Bogotá, D.C.
In the ceremony to commemorate the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims, the director of the Unit for the Victims announced an adjustment to Resolution 1049 of 2019, which sets the priorities to compensate conflict victims.
The current norm establishes priorities for victims who are in a manifest urgency or extreme vulnerability situation; people with 74 or more years belong to this group, as well as people with disabilities, an orphan, ruinous type, catastrophic or high-cost disease.
However, considering the principles of gradualness, progressivity, and fiscal sustainability provided in 2011’s 1448 Law, according to the director of the Unit and after an information analysis from the National Information Network regarding the older adult victim population: "It was concluded that it is possible to prioritize people with 68 years or more, thus advancing with goals fulfillment in individual reparation terms."
By adjusting this resolution, the aim is to expand the number of people associated with this vulnerability criteria, “allowing them to access administrative compensation with priority, benefiting around 120,000 victims and continuing with the process of those people who, having 74 years or more, have not received the measure yet,” said Ramon Rodriguez.
Up until December 31st, 2020, using the records managed by the National Information Network and the cross referencing made with the National Registry of Civil Status, the Unit for the Victims identified people with 74 years or over who received 136,966 compensations.
“Once the study on the compensation delivery progress related to the first prioritization criteria had been carried out, it was concluded that the Unit had materialized the measure to a large population group that belongs to this age range, which motivates the adjustment, so it benefits more elderly citizens," added the entity’s Director.
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